Difficulties in Fault-Tree Synthesis for Process Plant

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-29, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 2-9

  Andow, P K ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control loops; Fault tree synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS - THEORY; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS - RELIABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0019008970     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1980.5220684     Document Type: Article

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